Candles manufacturing · Ohio

Alene Candles Midwest

New Albany, OH · ~469 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alene Candles Midwest runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Alene Candles Midwest: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alene Candles Midwest safety composite

Alene Candles Midwest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2017→2022

Alene Candles Midwest injury rate improved

Alene Candles Midwest's TCR fell 1.8 from 2.9 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.9 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · New Albany, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #5/15
  • PHOTO Consumer Products
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~469 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Consumer Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alene Candles Midwest in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Alene Candles Midwest averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Alene Candles Midwest TCR series: 2017=2.9 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Alene Candles Midwest falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 15 Candles manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Alene Candles Midwest (469 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Alene Candles Midwest
Alene Candles Midwest (469 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Alene Candles Midwest has more employees than the Candles manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 1.1 0.6 6 0 0
2021 0.5 0.5 3 0 0
2020 1.7 1.1 8 0 0
2019 3.2 3.0 13 0 0
2017 2.9 1.4 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · OH · New Albany

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 76 employers in New Albany, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Consumer Products 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gleicher Manufacturing 847-855 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LINC 3567 - Tanner,AL - F 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Illume 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Archbold OH 469 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Montefiore Home 469 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf N.Canton NAO Field Services 470 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cenovus Energy Lima Refining Company 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8807710-ABERCROMBIE & FITCH 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Project Cardinal (M&T) 1,150 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC1 & DC2 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CMH7 953 FTE
NAT-TCR shakopee 8050 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ATMCR 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley HomeStore 43 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Hanes Mall 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cardinal IG -Greenfield IG 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Star Aviation / Grand Junction 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSI, Inc 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakewood Regional Office 469 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.